Tesla to Choose Nevada for Battery Factory

State Likely Offered Large Incentives to Lure $5 Billion Plant

Tesla Motors Inc. is expected to choose a site in Nevada for its proposed up to $5 billion battery factory and could disclose the move on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the electric auto maker's plans.

State officials scheduled a news conference at 4 p.m. Thursday in Carson City to announce the plant. Nevada likely offered Tesla one of the largest incentive packages in the history of the U.S. auto industry to lure the...